Ludwig van Beethoven Quotes

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• Music is the wine which inspires one to new generative processes, and I am Bacchus who presses out this glorious wine for mankind and makes… Bacchus
• The barriers are not erected which can say to aspiring talents and industry, 'Thus far and no farther.' Aspiring
• Recommend to your children virtue; that alone can make them happy, not gold. Alone
• This is the mark of a really admirable man: steadfastness in the face of trouble. Admirable
• A great poet is the most precious jewel of a nation. Great
• Tones sound, and roar and storm about me until I have set them down in notes. Down
• Art! Who comprehends her? With whom can one consult concerning this great goddess? Art
• Beethoven can write music, thank God, but he can do nothing else on earth. Beethoven
• I will seize fate by the throat; it shall certainly never wholly overcome me. Certainly Never
• Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy. All
• Music is the one incorporeal entrance into the higher world of knowledge which comprehends mankind but which mankind cannot comprehend. Cannot Comprehend
• What you are, you are by accident of birth; what I am, I am by myself. There are and will be a thousand princes; there… Accident
• Only the pure in heart can make a good soup. Art
• Anyone who tells a lie has not a pure heart, and cannot make a good soup. Anyone
• Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life. Life
• Music should strike fire from the heart of man, and bring tears form the eyes of woman. Bring
• Nothing is more intolerable than to have to admit to yourself your own errors. Admit
• Don't only practice your art, but force your way into its secrets; art deserves that, for it and knowledge can raise man to the Divine. Art
• You ask me where I get my ideas. That I cannot tell you with certainty. They come unsummoned, directly, indirectly - I could seize them… Air
• I shall hear in heaven. Aging

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